Django Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2021-3281 - Vulnerability Database

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Django Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2021-3281

Medium

Reference: CVE-2021-3281

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3281

Title: Django Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability

Overview:

In Django 2.2 before 2.2.18 3.0 before 3.0.12 and 3.1 before 3.1.6 the django.utils.archive.extract method (used by startapp --template and startproject --template) allows directory traversal via an archive with absolute paths or relative paths with dot segments.